Linguistic Pet Peeves

[Jedrnurse]

Okay, y'all. In spite of what some people will say, your use of language will influence what people think of you, and how intelligent and/or competent they think you are.

My current number one: You don't LOOSE your license, you lose it. (If your license is loose, you need to capture it...)

Don't even get me started on loosing YOU'RE license...

What are other some other linguistic "nails on chalkboard" for folks?

[westieluv]

When people say they "seen" something.

This.

I used to work with a nurse practitioner who would say "I seen him yesterday", etc. It drove me nuts because she had so much education but sounded like she didn't. She would also say, "He don't take his meds like he's supposed to because his wife don't pick them up at the store for him", etc. which was also like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

[abbnurse]

"All y'all" is the plural of "Y'all".

[Sage611]

hahahahahahaha "AX" - that makes me cringe. I'm starting to hear that more often, I don't know why.

other mispronunciations I hear often:

paradigm shift - I've heard it pronounced as para dig em...from members of upper management.

This reminds me of when I was very young and stupid, when I pronounced Constantinople "Con-stun-nipple-​ee."

[Sage611]

...saying "Ibupropen" or "gluclose"

[bagladyrn, RN]

One hospital at which I worked had a sign above the entrance to the Med-Surg unit. It read "No Childern Allowed".

I had frequent thoughts about a stepladder and a can of paint.

I once changed my route driving to work because a badly misspelled sign in a storefront affected like nails on a chalkboard.

[Sage611]

One hospital at which I worked had a sign above the entrance to the Med-Surg unit. It read "No Childern Allowed".

I had frequent thoughts about a stepladder and a can of paint.

I once changed my route driving to work because a badly misspelled sign in a storefront affected like nails on a chalkboard.

Incorrect signs are the worst! There is a subdivision near me called "Blue Sky's."

[Rocknurse, MSN, APRN, NP]

Orientated. You are not orientated to a new unit/hospital/job. You are ORIENTED.

Not in England! We feel the same when you use oriented. We say "it's not oriented, it's orientated!"

[greenerpastures]

Y'all is not a word, or even a proper contraction.

Actually, y'all is listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a variant of you all. Of course, so is yada yada yada, but that's another thread!

[Caroline123]

Oh, no time to read this. I'm fixin to go to work:sarcastic:

[Kitiger, RN]

Not in England! We feel the same when you use oriented. We say "it's not oriented, it's orientated!"

This is the difference between American English and English as it is spoken in England.

In England, a car has a bonnet and a boot, and the signs at the zoo tell you not to worry the animals. Were I to visit England, I would try to use the proper idioms.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Orientated. You are not orientated to a new unit/hospital/job. You are ORIENTED.

wrong, orientated is a legit word.

[SnowShoeRN]

posted in error.